How YOU can learn to author your first Serverless function using this video

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Serverless is this new concept that everyone is talking about. It lives natively in the Cloud and is extra interesting as it is about running managed code, no need to set up a virtual machine or app server - focus only on writing code. It's also really cheap as it is a resource that is only provisioned when you need it. Whether you are a startup that needs to keep the costs down or an Enterprise company looking to cost-cut or maybe you want to leverage more of your existing presence in the Cloud - this could be for you

This video explains why you should be using Serverless and also explains basic concepts such as Trigger and Bindings. It also takes you through scaffolding a Function app and a function. Additionally, it shows you how to debug locally using VS Code

 Resources

• Sign up for a free Azure account
  To be able to use the Azure SignalR Service part you will need a free Azure account

• Build a serverless GraphQL API
  This shows how we build Microservices with Docker and how we use the URLs as part of a GraphQL API

• Deploying your serverless API to the Cloud
  This shows how we take our Microservices and put them in the container registry. It also shows how we host our API in a Serverless function and deploy it to Azure

• Build serverless functions using the Azure portal
  We get to know the Azure portal and we learn to build our first function

• Build serverless functions using the Azure portal, advanced usage
  We deepen our knowledge of the portal and build yet another Azure function

• Build Serverless functions using VS Code
  This time we learn how to build an Azure function in VS Code